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Todd Kelly

Prize money, starting strokes format for 2023 Tour Championship at East Lake

The 2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs conclude this week at the Tour Championship, where the winner will take home $18 million (before taxes) in bonus money.

This year marks the 17th season of the playoffs. PGA Tour players battled through 46 events to get to the finale.

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup points made the postseason with the top 50 advancing to Week 2 and then just the top 30 reaching East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

Rory McIlroy became the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup when he rallied from six shots back a year ago to track down Scottie Scheffler.

The money

The winner of the Tour Championship is declared the FedEx Cup champion and takes home the first-place prize of $18 million in bonus money. The runner-up gets $6.5 million, with third place earning $5 million, all the way down to 30th place, which is good for $500,000.

Bonus money payouts

Position Payout Position Payout
1 $18,000,000 16 $720,000
2 $6,500,000 17 $700,000
3 $5,000,000 18 $680,000
4 $4,000,000 19 $660,000
5 $3,000,000 20 $640,000
6 $2,500,000 21 $620,000
7 $2,000,000 22 $600,000
8 $1,500,000 23 $580,000
9 $1,250,000 24 $565,000
10 $1,000,000 25 $550,000
11 $950,000 26 $540,000
12 $900,000 27 $530,000
13 $850,000 28 $520,000
14 $800,000 29 $510,000
15 $760,000 30 $500,000

There is a total of $75 million in bonus money up for grabs at East Lake.

The format

The PGA Tour will continue to utilize the FedEx Cup Starting Strokes, which was introduced for the first time in 2019. It’s a staggered system whereby the golfer in the top position will start the Tour Championship at 10 under.

Starting strokes

Starting position Starting score Golfer
No. 1 10 under Scottie Scheffler
No. 2 8 under Viktor Hovland
No. 3 7 under Rory McIlroy
No. 4 6 under Jon Rahm
No. 5 5 under Lucas Glover
No. 6 4 under Max Homa
No. 7 4 under Patrick Cantlay
No. 8 4 under Brian Harman
No. 9 4 under Wyndham Clark
No. 10 4 under Matt Fitzpatrick
No. 11 3 under Tommy Fleetwood
No. 12 3 under Russell Henley
No. 13 3 under Keegan Bradley
No. 14 3 under Rickie Fowler
No. 15 3 under Xander Schauffele
No. 16 2 under Tom Kim
No. 17 2 under Sungjae Im
No. 18 2 under Tony Finau
No. 19 2 under Corey Conners
No. 20 2 under Si Woo Kim
No. 21 1 under Taylor Moore
No. 22 1 under Nick Taylor
No. 23 1 under Adam Schenk
No. 24 1 under Collin Morikawa
No. 25 1 under Jason Day
No. 26 Even Sam Burns
No. 27 Even Emiliano Grillo
No. 28 Even Tyrrell Hatton
No. 29 Even Jordan Spieth
No. 30 Even Sepp Straka

This system was established to give players at the top of the points list the reward of a starting advantage in the Tour Championship.

Only two multiple winners

The first 16 seasons of the playoff produced 13 different winners with McIlroy (2016, 2019, 2022) and Tiger Woods (2007, 2009) the only golfers to win it more than once.

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